People

Just before the Christmas break, we celebrated two 40 years service awards for brothers Brian and Pete. Both Brian and Pete joined ercol in 1974. Brian (on the right of our Chairman, Edward) joined in the October of 1974 where he started in the Bandsaw shop and 9 days later became an apprentice in Polishing where […]

The 1875 Quaker Dining Chair is one of our classic Windsor chair designs. Created by Lucian Ercolani in 1957, it has remained in continuous production up to this very day. We thought we’d share with you the key stages in assembling the chair

One of the pleasures of Christmas for us is to celebrate the achievements of our workforce in the shape of the long service awards presented this time each year. 2013 saw one of our machinist’s name carved into the 21 year board that records everyone who has reached 21 years of service – a total […]

This Christmas sees us celebrate two milestone achievements, with the award of our 21 year and 40 year service awards to two of our employees. One of the distinctive features of ercol is our highly skilled work-force, a skill that comes from many years of experience making furniture. So we are delighted to make the […]

On the 5th of September 2011 we welcomed Henry Tadros, the great-grandson of ercol’s founder Lucian Ercolani, as he joined the company. We asked Henry to tell us his experiences so far… I started working at Ercol last September. Over the next 9 months I would be able to have an indepth induction into the […]

ercol are privileged to have many long serving employees. With long service comes an accumulation of knowledge and skills that help make ercol what it is today. So we were delighted to make two 40 year awards at the end of 2011. Over the years we have now

It’s been our pleasure to give six employees their 21 year service awards this week. Their names join the roll of honour which records the 589 individuals who have completed 21 years of service, mostly now retired, but 70 of whom are still working with us. Over the years 100 individuals have reached the milestone […]

On the back of strong trading this year, we’ve just announced some new appointments to further bolster our team. Nick Garratt, who has been with ercol since 2005, moves from Head of Sales and Operations to become Managing Director, whilst Ian Peers has been appointed to the board as Operations Director, having also worked at […]